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on writers who also illustrate.

I mentioned Mervyn Peake

Tove Jansson

Victor Hugo

and many others.

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Was launched at Uncommon Objects in Austin, with the very brilliant Pascal Simon of Bake Austin baking Parliament.

This is a cake, and we ate it.

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Pascal’s pie was gobbled up with great gusto and gone in seconds. After it had gone we missed it terribly.

You can make Forlichingham Pie at home, I heartily recommend it:

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…is finished and will be published simultaneously in UK, US and Canada on 5^th November 2015, Guy Fawkes day. Which is perfectly fitting because the Iremongers have set their hopes and hate on Parliament.

Meanwhile HEAP HOUSE was a NYTimes Notable book in 2014, an NPR best book of the year and a Kirkus best Teen book of 2014. The paper back of Foulsham is out in the UK, and the hardcover is out in Canada and will be out in US very soon. And the Iremongers have also appeared in Russia, in China,

in Italy

and France,

where Grasset made this splendid book trailer:

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You can visit it here: saragruen.com/index.php

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And here are some pictures of her creating it.

And here, much reduced.

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The really amazing Pascal Simon of Bake Austin made this:

into this (not quite finished):

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